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Aug 2013
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
After all the shoot-outs and bang-bangs are over, you are left with a film which leaves you with so little new that you wonder if there's any juice left in this style of retro gangsta flick.
Aug 2013
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Chennai Express
The laughs came intermittently through the first half, and I was still sitting in my seat at the interval. And then it turned into the same old story: the plot, which was thinner than a self-respecting wafer to start with, just gives up and dies, and the lead pair, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone stop talking to each other and begin posturing.
Aug 2013
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Rabba Main Kya Karoon
The trouble with Rabba Main Kya Karoon, as with most of these films which showcase a pair of inexperienced newcomers with a solid, ill-used supporting cast, is that it settles too easily into a sexist, let's-dump-on--these-idiot-women mode.
Aug 2013
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B.A. Pass
Mohan Sikka's short story 'The Railway Aunty', on which the film is based, uses its atmosphere of defeat and rancidness much better. In the film, Bahl creates claustrophobia well, and then loses the story and the characters in it.
Aug 2013
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Chor Chor Super Chor
Turning the tables on someone usually is a fun thing. But the execution is amateurish, so is most of the acting, even if Dobriyal keeps some of it humming.
Aug 2013
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Bajatey Raho
...the film turns out to be clichéd and largely choppy: an idea by itself is never enough, it's what you do with it that counts.
Jul 2013
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Issaq
...sounds like so many of the other recent UP-as-badlands films, without a singular voice of its own. Finally, it drowns in its own noise.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2013
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Ship Of Theseus
For me it was a fulfilling experience, a film to savour much after watching it.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2013
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Shorts
If these filmmakers go on to make features, then we are in for some good times.
Jul 2013
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
...is more the overlong, overblown Singing-Dancing-Flying Sikh, than just the triumphal, true Flying Sikh.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2013
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Lootera
It has left me with some indelible scenes which are sheer poetry, but this is one of those films that I wanted to like much more than I did.
Jul 2013
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Ghanchakkar
This could have been a hoot, but the execution lets down the premise, and the film remains one of those that could have been edgier and funnier.
Jun 2013
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Shortcut Romeo
...I wasn't feeling very smart when I left the theatre after two and a half hours of this drivel.
Jun 2013
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Raanjhanaa
Post interval, it comes unstuck, and squanders its gains. If Raanjhanaa had kept its tone intact, it would have been a great love story.
Jun 2013
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Fukrey
...how many times can we see fumbling fellows with cops hot on their heels running down the narrow alleyways of Old Delhi?
Jun 2013
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Ankur Arora Murder Case
Pity because this could have been a medico-legal thriller with teeth.
Jun 2013
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
...the only thing one can say in its favour is that it is not as terrible as the first.
Jun 2013
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
...a been-here, seen-this, much-too-long glossy creature, and not much else.
May 2013
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May 2013
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Aurangzeb
Somewhere in the too-complicated strands of Aurangzeb is a film struggling to cohere.
May 2013
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Go Goa Gone
The film would have been funnier if the second act hadn't gone into a slide. And also if Khan hadn't played Boris so straight.
May 2013
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Bombay Talkies
...speaks of you and me, and speaks to you and me. Not all segments are even, but they are all cracklingly real.
May 2013
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Shootout At Wadala
What stops it from becoming the film that it could have is an avalanche of dialogue, the sort of smart-alecky lines that sounded so right in the 70s.
May 2013
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3G
Nothing we haven't seen before, in various films that dabble in the weird-things-happen-to-nice-people territory.
Mar 2013